GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unfrock | defrock |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| engender | beget |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| peerless | matchless |
| demur | to take exception : object |
| convoluted | having convolutions |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |